This being the Most Mediocre Year Ever, there is no band that sums that up better than Paramore. The bad got a big push from MTV and their record label thanks to being one of the first bands to sign a 360 degree deal. Yet with all the marketing muscle behind their three singles this year, the band wasn’t good enough to show up on this list nor were bad enough to land of the Worst Songs of 2007 list. So congratulations Paramore, with all the mediocre music put out by bland artists such as OneRepublic, Lifehouse, and Sean Kingston, you managed to be the most mediocre of them all. Although the problem with the most mediocre of them all, even though this is the Most Mediocre Year Ever, you will most likely be forgotten by 2009. Sorry.
Onto the songs that did make the list, the reason this is the Most Mediocre Year Ever is the great songs were really thin at the top this year. Most of these songs wouldn’t have cracked the top ten in other years. With that said, even though there was a lacking of great songs, there was an overabundance of good songs this year to the point that there were ten to twenty songs this year that deserved to make the top one hundred when most years ninety through one hundred are an afterthought most years. But here are the ones that made the cut for this, the last post of 2007. Hopefully I will see you all back here in 2008.
1. Drivin' Me Wild - Common featuring Lily Allen
2. Dreaming With a Broken Heart - John Mayer
3. Can't Tell Me Nothing - Kanye West
4. Rehab - Amy Winehouse
5. Two - Ryan Adams
6. Stronger - Kanye West
7. Tennessee - The Wreckers
8. Oh My God - Mark Ronson featuring Lily Allen
9. Read My Mind - The Killers
10. No One - Alicia Keys
11. Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen
12. Alfie - Lily Allen
13. Our Song - Taylor Swift
14. The Underdog - Spoon
15. The Game - Common
16. Brianstorm - Arctic Monkeys
17. Look After You - The Fray
18. LDN - Lily Allen
19. Love Song - Sara Bareilles
20. Dumb It Down - Lupe Fiasco featuring GemStones & Graham Burris
21. Everybody Knows - Ryan Adams
22. Rockstar - Nickelback
23. Trouble Sleeping - Corinne Bailey Rae
24. Like You'll Never See Me Again - Alicia Keys
25. 1234 - Feist
26. Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys
27. Extraordinary - Mandy Moore
28. Sober - Kelly Clarkson
29. You Know I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse
30. Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John featuring Victoria Bergsman
31. Bleed It Out - Linkin Park
32. Bubbly - Colbie Caillat
33. Say - John Mayer
34. Shut Up and Drive - Rihanna
35. Open Your Eyes - Snow Patrol
36. Believe - The Bravery
37. Ah Mary - Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
38. Smiley Faces - Gnarls Barkley
39. Umbrella - Rihanna featuring Jay-Z
40. Big Casino - Jimmy Eat World
41. Tranquilize - The Killers featuring Lou Reed
42. Halloweenhead - Ryan Adams
43. Hang Me Up to Dry - Cold War Kids
44. Can You Believe - Robin Thicke
45. Hate That I Love You - Rihanna and NeYo
46. If You're Gonna Leave - Emerson Hart
47. Harder Than You Think - Public Enemy
48. Roc Boys - Jay-Z
49. Other Side of the World - KT Tunstall
50. Tears Dry On Their Own - Amy Winehouse
51. All Good Things (Come to an End) - Nelly Furtado
52. Makes Me Wonder - Maroon 5
53. Throw Some D’s (Remix) - Kanye West
54. Listen!!! - Talib Kweli
55. 100 Days, 100 Nights - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
56. The Pretender - Foo Fighters
57. Conquest - The White Stripes
58. What Goes Around.../...Comes Around Interlude - Justin Timberlake
59. Won't Go Home Without You - Maroon 5
60. Window In the Skies - U2
61. What I've Done - Linkin Park
62. Ever Ever After - Carrie Underwood
63. Nolita Fairytale - Vanessa Carlton
64. The People - Common
65. Never Again - Kelly Clarkson
66. Littlest Things - Lily Allen
67. Wasted - Carrie Underwood
68. Wake Up Call - Maroon 5
69. Icky Thump - The White Stripes
70. Her Eyes - Pat Monahan
71. Dance Tonight - Paul McCartney
72. Classic (Better Than I've Ever Been) - KRS-One, Kanye West, Nas & Rakim
73. Hot In Herre - Jenny Owen Youngs
74. Ain't Nothing Wrong With That - Robert Randolph and the Family Band
75. New Shoes - Paolo Nutini
76. Stop Me - Mark Ronson featuring Daniel Merriweather
77. Tarantula - Smashing Pumpkins
78. Shut Your Eyes - Snow Patrol
79. The Way I Am - Ingrid Michaelson
80. Teardrops On My Guitar - Taylor Swift
81. Hey There Delilah - Plain White T’s
82. B.U.D.D.Y. - Musiq Soulchild
83. Australia - The Shins
84. You're All I Have - Snow Patrol
85. Guitar - Prince
86. Gravity - John Mayer
87. Good Life - Kanye West featuring T-Pain
88. Say Ok - Vanessa Hudgens
89. Gotta Work - Amerie
90. Follow the Lights - Ryan Adams
91. You Give Me Something - James Morrison
92. Valerie - Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse
93. Saving My Face - KT Tunstall
94. So Small - Carrie Underwood
95. Do It - Nelly Furtado
96. Candyman - Christina Aguilera
97. Thinking About You - Norah Jones
98. Undeniable - Mat Kearney
99. Tick Tick Boom - The Hives
100. This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race - Fall Out Boy
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The Read My Mind remix that was on Friday Night Lights is so good. Great music on that show. Great list man...
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A list of songs on this list I'm guessing were guilty pleasures.
Shorter than I thought it would be.
And THANK YOU for putting "Umbrella" on the POSITIVE list. It's about time online bloggers pay some respect to that song.
Rockstar can be classified by as a guilty pleasure by I stand by Our Song as a legitimately good song and one of the most well written pop songs of the past decade.
DeleteAnd I never realize that other bloggers were hating on Umbrella, sure it was over played at the time, but still did not diminish it as a good pop song.